Data Platform Architect
Gravie · Remote · Remote ·
COMPENSATION
$170k – $227k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Senior Individual Contributor
- Fully remote position
- Kafka + Flink + Debezium
- AWS cloud environment
- Healthcare domain focus
Join Gravie as a hands-on Data Platform Architect leading the company's data and digital transformation. You will define the technical blueprint for unifying internal and external data into a near-real-time ecosystem, moving beyond traditional batch processing.
This senior individual contributor role requires deep architectural judgment to support Product, Data Engineering, and Operations teams. You will establish governance frameworks, drive technology selection, and mentor teams while ensuring HIPAA compliance in a healthcare context.
What you'll do
- Design end-to-end architecture for the operational data platform using streaming technologies
- Define and govern reference architectures and canonical data models for claims and enrollment
- Establish data contract standards and processes with partner teams
- Enforce data governance frameworks and access controls with HIPAA compliance in mind
- Lead evaluation and selection of real-time data technologies aligned with strategic goals
- Serve as architectural authority for complex design decisions and risk identification
- Provide technical coaching and mentorship to Data Producer and Consumer teams
- Drive innovation towards practical AI use cases on the data platform
What you'll need
- 8-15 years of experience architecting large-scale data integrations and streaming pipelines
- Strong hands-on expertise with Kafka, Flink, and Debezium or similar tools
- Deep understanding of stateful stream processing and exactly-once delivery semantics
- Extensive experience with AWS cloud environments
- Proficiency in SQL and Python with foundational knowledge of JVM languages like Java
- Prior healthcare experience with deep understanding of HIPAA and ePHI requirements
- Experience applying data observability concepts like freshness, lineage, and schema to real-time streams
- Proven ability to translate technical concepts for business stakeholders and executives
- Previous experience in a venture-backed start-up environment
Stack
- Kafka
- Flink
- Debezium
- AWS
- SQL
- Python
- Java
What you get
- Standard health and wellness benefits
- Alternative medicine coverage
- Flexible paid time off
- Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave
- 401k program
- Transportation perks
- Education reimbursement
- 2 days of paid paw-ternity leave